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Masahiro Nakai

1972 - Today

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Masahiro Nakai (中居 正広, Nakai Masahiro; born August 18, 1972) is a Japanese former television personality, actor, radio personality, and singer. He debuted as the leader of the boy band SMAP, which had been the best-selling boy band in Asia. While working as a member of a boy band, he worked extensively as a television presenter, hosting many of his own talk shows, variety shows, music shows, news programs, and several Olympic games as a sportscaster. He is credited for changing the Japanese entertainment industry, becoming the first non-comedian celebrity to have a career as a television host and expanding the capacity of a boy band. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Masahiro Nakai is the 60th most popular presenter (up from 84th in 2024), the 1,642nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,915th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Presenter.

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Among PRESENTERS

Among presenters, Masahiro Nakai ranks 60 out of 143. Before him are Rush Limbaugh, Lohengrin Filipello, Benny Hinn, Stephen Colbert, Alex Trebek, and Sabine Schmitz. After him are Ai Iijima, Mehdi Hasan, Walter Winchell, Jee Seok-jin, Ryan Dunn, and Erez Tal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Masahiro Nakai ranks 272. Before him are Kimbal Musk, Radivoje Manić, James Dashner, Junichi Suwabe, Anders Thomas Jensen, and Florin Cîțu. After him are Fabrice Santoro, Ngô Bảo Châu, Maya Rudolph, Ai Iijima, Kelly Chen, and Shuntaro Furukawa.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masahiro Nakai ranks 1,642 out of 6,245. Before him are Toshimitsu Motegi (1955), Megumi Yokota (1964), Junichi Suwabe (1972), Takamichi Kobayashi (1979), Kouta Hirano (1973), and Kiyonobu Okajima (1971). After him are Chiaki Kuriyama (1984), Junichi Masuda (1968), Jo Nakajima (1980), Kotaro Nakao (1969), Yoshinobu Miyake (1939), and Ai Iijima (1972).

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Among PRESENTERS In Japan

Among presenters born in Japan, Masahiro Nakai ranks 1. After him are Ai Iijima (1972).

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